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dropped, dropt, ppl. a.|drɒpt|
[f. drop v.]
1. a. Fallen, lowered; allowed to drop or fall. spec. in Rugby Football, designating a goal scored by a drop-kick.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 248 Vnder a tree like a drop'd Acorne. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) V. 235 With distended eyes, dropped jaws, and shaking limbs. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 314 Till the dropped curtain gives a glad release. 1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile Poems 1850 I. 62 With dropt looks. 1893Times 16 Dec. 9/5 Lead paralysis with its special feature of ‘dropped wrist’, or paralysis of the muscles of the arm. 1896Durham Univ. Jrnl. 29 Feb. 46 Winners..by 1 dropped goal [i.e. obtained by a drop-kick]. 1933Times 4 Dec. 5/6 Norris increased Cheltenham's lead with a splendid dropped goal from a distance of 30 yards. 1971Times 15 Feb. 9/2 Bushell put Sidcup ahead with a superb dropped goal from 30 yards.
b. Of eggs: Fried or poached, ‘dropped into the frying pan’ (Jam.).
1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. x, A roasted chucky and a drappit egg. 1884M. E. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. July 306/2 Martha was..eating her toast and a dropped egg.
c. dropped head: a head (see head n. 13) at the beginning of a chapter, etc., placed lower down the page than the first line on ordinary pages.
1904in Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 176/1. 1906 E. Johnston Writing xvi. 343 It would not be necessary for the first page of a chapter to have the ordinary dropped head and blank upper space.
d. dropped handlebars = drop-handlebars (see drop-).
1913Boy's Own Bk. Outdoor Games 218 A warning regarding the use of ‘dropped’ handle-bars will not be out of place. These are only necessary in racing, and while sacrificing comfort are not conducive to fast riding. 1970Morning Star 18 Aug. 4 One sees young lads on bicycles in a busy city bent over dropped handlebars on which the brake levers are right at the end of the bars.
e. dropped scone (see scone n. 1).
†2. Marked with spots or specks. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Gouët, faulcon gouët, whose feathers are ill marked, mailed, or coloured..a dropt Hawke.
3. Abandoned, allowed to lapse.
1886Froude Oceana 16, I resumed my dropped intention.
4. Comb., as dropped-eared.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2308/4 A Sorrel Mare, dropt Ear'd.
▸ dropped kerb n. chiefly Brit. a small ramp built into a roadside kerb to make it easier for vehicles, pushchairs, etc., to pass between the pavement and the road.
1973N.Y. Times 28 Oct. i. 100/1 The..Center for Building Construction Studies..will have *dropped curbs, a ramped entrance and wider doors to assure greater mobility for the handicapped. 1990Times 24 Nov. (Sat. Rev. section) 18/2 Small granite sets will be used to make dropped kerbs at pedestrian crossings. 1998S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 25 May 7 It is an offence under the Highways Act of 1980 to drive over the pavement to park in gardens where there is no dropped kerb. |